One Blow Shatters Cloud Heavenly Emperor's Swagger! Preparing to Break Through to Dou Venerate!

Sensing Yun Shan's aura racing toward the hillside.

Ji Changqing showed no sign of panic.

Because he had already anticipated it.

Ever since Yun Yun had used the Azure Wave Dragon Girl Body to defeat... no, he had to give Cloud Heavenly Emperor some face—draw with Yun Shan on the day he refined the Green Lotus Core Flame.

Ji Changqing had known that Yun Shan would insist on finding out where Yun Yun's combat technique had come from.

Sure enough, Yun Shan had followed them tonight.

"Mysterious Elder Grandma, I wish to ask you for a pill. It is truly very important to my disciple, Ji Changqing..."

The mysterious senior did not reply.

Yun Yun thought her request had displeased her.

But since it concerned Ji Changqing, she braced herself and asked again.

"Someone is coming. Their aura shares the same origin as yours."

The hoarse voice drifting from the green clouds left Yun Yun slightly stunned.

Once she realized what was happening, she hurriedly said:

"Mysterious Elder Grandma, I didn't bring him here!"

"I know."

Ji Changqing said slowly:

"Go stop him. Other than you, I do not wish to meet anyone else from the Misty Cloud Sect for now."

"Yes, Mysterious Elder Grandma!"

Yun Yun quickly answered.

Then she turned and flew at top speed toward the Misty Cloud Sect.

She was anxious.

She feared the newcomer would offend this mysterious senior.

Leaving aside the immense help the other party had given her.

The fact that she had casually wiped out Clear Wind Cliff was enough for Yun Yun to understand that this senior was absolutely not someone to be trifled with.

Whoosh—

A streak of green light flashed past.

The moment they sensed each other's auras.

Yun Yun and Yun Shan came face-to-face.

"Master..."

Yun Yun cupped her hands and calmly asked:

"What brings you here so late at night?"

Seeing Yun Yun's expression, Yun Shan knew she had already discovered that he had followed her.

With his right hand behind his back, his sharp green eyes swept over the space behind Yun Yun as he said evenly:

"Yun'er, you are the Sect Leader of the Misty Cloud Sect. Every word and action of yours can have an enormous impact on the sect."

"Your Dou Qi level has risen greatly in recent days, and you have also learned a combat technique that does not belong to the Misty Cloud Sect."

"I am your master and the former Sect Leader of the Misty Cloud Sect. Should I not investigate?"

Truthfully, Yun Shan had already given Yun Yun plenty of face.

That was because she had fought him to a draw that day.

Otherwise, he would not have said so much. He would have barged through long ago.

"Master..."

Everything Yun Shan said was correct.

There was simply no reason for her to refute him.

Yet Yun Yun still stood in front of Yun Shan and apologetically said:

"Master, forgive me. I promised someone... I cannot tell you."

"I, Yun Yun, dare guarantee to Master that I will never do anything harmful to the Misty Cloud Sect."

"Hmph! Whether it will affect the Misty Cloud Sect is something I need to see for myself."

Yun Shan narrowed his eyes and slowly said as he looked at Yun Yun:

"Yun'er, do you still intend to fight me?"

"In just a few days, you want to fight me twice?"

"I..."

Yun Yun was left speechless, a trace of hesitation flashing across her beautiful and dignified face.

And in that brief moment of hesitation.

Spatial ripples spread beneath Yun Shan's feet. With a flicker, he bypassed Yun Yun.

"Today, I will see exactly who has been teaching my disciple in my place."

With that, Yun Shan sped in the direction Yun Yun had come from.

Watching Yun Shan draw closer and closer to the hillside, Yun Yun's expression changed as she cried out in panic:

"Master, stop!"

"Stop?"

Yun Shan sneered.

"In the Jia Ma Empire, there is no one who can make Yun Shan stop."

"Hehe, the former Sect Leader of the Misty Cloud Sect certainly has quite the presence."

At that moment, the voice spreading in from all directions made Yun Shan stop with a frown.

Yun Yun hurriedly bowed toward the hillside.

"Mysterious Elder Grandma, I am truly sorry to have disturbed you! I will take my master and leave at once!"

"Master, hurry and go!"

"Hmph!"

Yun Shan snorted coldly, ignoring Yun Yun.

He looked around, his right hand behind his back, his voice light and calm like clouds at the horizon.

"Why hide your head and show your tail, Your Excellency? Why not reveal yourself?"

"You are not worthy."

"Arrogant."

Whoosh—!

Almost at the exact instant Yun Shan uttered the word "arrogant."

A thread of green light, so faint it was nearly impossible to see, instantly pierced through layer upon layer of space, leaving behind a deep spatial rift as it shot toward Yun Shan.

Yun Shan had no time to react.

By the time he realized what had happened, a bleeding hole had already appeared in his right shoulder.

Dou Qi so pure that it surpassed Yun Shan's understanding rampaged through the wound and down his entire right arm, leaving it completely numb.

"This..."

Yun Shan's face turned deathly pale in an instant.

Just now, he had caught a whiff of death.

If that Extreme Wind Meteor Kill had struck his head, he would already be dead.

Only at this moment did Yun Shan realize just how vast the gap between him and the other party was.

"Mysterious Elder Grandma, please show mercy!"

Yun Yun pleaded for Yun Shan in a trembling voice.

Yun Shan covered his shoulder with his left hand and slowly said with a pale face:

"I have offended you, Senior. Yun Shan apologizes to you here."

"Forget it. Your arm will be unable to move for one month. Consider it a small punishment."

That hoarse voice echoed through the area once more.

"I have old ties with the Misty Cloud Sect, so I merely taught Yun Yun a few things as repayment for a debt owed to the previous generation."

"Do not overthink it. There is nothing in the Misty Cloud Sect worth coveting."

Yun Shan nodded.

"For Yun Yun to receive Senior's guidance is her fortune."

"Since that is the case, Yun Shan will not disturb Senior any longer. Yun Yun, cultivate well under Senior's guidance."

"Yun Shan takes his leave."

Looking at Yun Shan, who had suddenly become so obedient, and at the right hand he had always kept behind his back now forced to hang at his side.

A complicated look flashed through Yun Yun's beautiful eyes.

She knew Yun Shan had always been proud.

Today, he had been defeated in a single move...

More accurately, he had been effortlessly defeated without even seeing who his opponent was.

It must have dealt him a severe blow.

Within the canopy atop the hillside.

Ji Changqing shook his head and sighed, murmuring softly:

"Grandmaster Yun Shan, I did all this for your own good."

"You're far too full of yourself. For the future peace of the Misty Cloud Sect, I had no choice but to give you a little warning."

"Rather than having your right arm severed or even dying and being refined into a shell, merely losing feeling in your right arm for a month is already quite a bargain."

After Yun Yun returned to the hillside.

Ji Changqing continued special training focused on Yun Yun's weaknesses.

One night passed, and the first pale light of dawn appeared on the horizon.

Yun Yun was drenched in fragrant sweat, lying on her back in the grass without the slightest desire to move.

Her wet green dress clung to her delicate body, making her already graceful figure appear even more alluring.

Ji Changqing said:

"In another month, you will probably reach the ninth star of Dou Emperor."

"Then I will give you a Sect Breaking Pill. Once you advance to the Dou Zong realm, you can be considered to have taken your first glimpse of the path of cultivation."

Yun Yun raised her eyes toward the green clouds, her exhausted pretty face filled with deep shock.

"Mysterious Elder Grandma, even in the Central Continent, where experts gather like clouds, a Dou Zong is not weak."

A Dou Zong was not weak?

Ji Changqing glanced at Yun Yun and sighed inwardly.

Who could understand the true weight of the words, everything before Dou Di is merely the foundation?

After a night of cultivation.

It was time for Ji Changqing to begin preparing to break through to Dou Venerate...